{"id":32254,"date":"2010-10-08T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=32254"},"modified":"2010-10-08T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T15:13:39","slug":"blast-calories-while-trick-or-treating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/blast-calories-while-trick-or-treating\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast Calories While Trick or Treating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Blast Calories While Trick or Treating\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/blast-calories-while-trick-or-treating\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32267\" title=\"pumpkin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pumpkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>There are many\u00a0October activities that are fun and incidentally, great exercise. Corn mazes, haunted houses, harvest festivals, <a title=\"The Colors of Fall Point to the Healthiest Foods\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/the-colors-of-fall-point-to-the-healthiest-foods\/\" target=\"_blank\">pumpkin<\/a> patches, scavenger hunts\u00a0and colored-leaf-scouting all provide great reasons to get outside the house\u00a0and get moving. Let&#8217;s be real though,\u00a0for many kids Halloween is still all about the trick-or-treating. A lot of parents dread the night of walking<em> up and down<\/em> the block, endlessly taking step after step. The attitude there is all wrong. Trick-or-treating is the <em>perfect <\/em>family outing! This year, maximize the time you spend taking your kids door to door. Make it fun and make it active<em>. <\/em>Here are a few ways to do just that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trick-or-treat in an area where the homes are farther apart. More walking equals more calories burned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Whenever it&#8217;s a viable option, use stairs.<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of walking, try jumping rope from house to house. On second thought, that sounds a little dangerous. However, you could make a rule that each person has to do 10 hops with a jump rope before walking up to the door. You could do the same thing with hula hoops, but they aren&#8217;t as easy to carry around the neighborhood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Do squats while you wait for the little ones to collect their candy at each house. Other parents might think you&#8217;re crazy, but who cares? We&#8217;ll see who&#8217;s laughing when <em>you <\/em>still fit into your skinny jeans!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn your night of trick-or-treating into an all-out fitness game! Recruit some other adults (or maybe even your kids) and have a contest to see who can fit in the most exercise during your Halloween adventure. Use pedometers to compare steps-taken at the end of the night. Try creating a points system. You could assign one point for each step taken and add bonuses for doing extra activity. Incorporating sprints, lunges, <a title=\"Yoga Shown to Improve Happiness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/yoga-shown-to-improve-happiness\/\" target=\"_blank\">yoga<\/a>, weight-lifting with pumpkins and\u00a0pushing a stroller could all give\u00a0bonus points. Carrying a child in your arms or on your back\u00a0provides an ultra-bonus!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Trick or Treat Revolution\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/start-a-healthy-trick-or-treat-revolution-in-your-neighborhood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Start a Healthy Trick or Treat Revolution in Your Neighborhood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"How to Limit the Halloween Candy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/how-to-limit-the-halloween-candy-eating-frenzy\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Limit the Halloween Candy Eating Frenzy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Fall Fun Can Burn Major Calories\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/fall-fun-can-burn-major-calories\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall Fun Can Burn Major Calories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many\u00a0October activities that are fun and incidentally, great exercise. Corn mazes, haunted houses, harvest festivals, pumpkin patches, scavenger hunts\u00a0and colored-leaf-scouting all provide great reasons to get outside the house\u00a0and get moving. Let&#8217;s be real though,\u00a0for many kids Halloween &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/blast-calories-while-trick-or-treating\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[280,4848,10903,271,3864,744,3712],"class_list":["post-32254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-candy","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-halloween","tag-healthy-holidays","tag-jump-rope","tag-squats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32254"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32266,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32254\/revisions\/32266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}